Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress, author and former model.
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MacGraw first gained attention with her role in the romantic comedy-drama Goodbye, Columbus (1969), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
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In 1969, She married legendary film producer Robert Evans, best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather and Chinatown.
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She catapulted to international fame the following year, opposite Ryan O’Neal, in Arthur Hiller’s classic romantic drama Love Story, and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
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In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having acted in only three films.
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MacGraw went on to star in Sam Peckinpah’s neo-noir crime film The Getaway (1972) and subsequently married her co-star, film icon Steve McQueen.
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McQueen was (according to MacGraw) unhappy with her working as an actress, so at the height of her newly realized fame, she stopped making films, until they divorced in 1978.
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Unfortunately, she never recovered her former status and successful film roles weren't forthcoming.
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She later appeared, opposite Kris Kristofferson, in the action film Convoy (1978), and in the 1983 epic television miniseries The Winds of War.
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In 1991, she published her autobiography, Moving Pictures.
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Photographer credit: Austin Hargrave